An instrument for assessing the quality of tobacco-control policies: The ACT-L scale

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 808-814

  Klonoff, Elizabeth A ^a   Landrine, Hope ^c   Alcaraz, Roxanna ^a   Campbell, Robin R ^a,b   Lang, Delia L ^a,b   McSwan, Kelli L ^b   Parekh, Bina ^b   Norton Perry, Gwenn ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Measurement; Scale; Tobacco control policy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LAW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; SMOKING;

EID: 0032407396     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1998.0363     Document Type: Article

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